Covid-19

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Originally Posted by paulxu

I don't do Facebook. My wife does and noted that people will post something, and it will show she "liked" it (I think with a thumbs up sign) and she says she never saw the post, and doesn't do the like/dislike thing. I assume someone (or program) on Facebook does it.

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If she is looking at it on her phone, she is probably accidentally hitting like with her thumb as she is scrolling.

According to the Global Covid Tracker from John's Hopkins, 1.2 million people who previously died from Covid rose from the dead today. So congrats to them.

Either that, or it's a glitch on their website. Will wait and see.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

According to the Global Covid Tracker from John's Hopkins, 1.2 million people who previously died from Covid rose from the dead today. So congrats to them.

Either that, or it's a glitch on their website. Will wait and see.

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Maybe they are correcting all those over-counted deaths.

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Originally Posted by boozehound

Maybe they are correcting all those over-counted deaths.

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They were needed at the polls.

So the US had its largest number of reported cases ever yesterday, and a large swath of Europe (UK, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands) are somewhere between significantly worse than the US to much, much worse than the US on a per capita basis at this point.

This says two things to me: first, we're likely in for a major increase in this shit in the next few weeks/months. Second, I'm not sure how much "managing" this matters. We absolutely could have done some things different/better. But based on what we're seeing in Europe (who certainly handled it differently than we did), we were going to get pretty well boned by this no matter what.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

So the US had its largest number of reported cases ever yesterday, and a large swath of Europe (UK, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands) are somewhere between significantly worse than the US to much, much worse than the US on a per capita basis at this point.

This says two things to me: first, we're likely in for a major increase in this shit in the next few weeks/months. Second, I'm not sure how much "managing" this matters. We absolutely could have done some things different/better. But based on what we're seeing in Europe (who certainly handled it differently than we did), we were going to get pretty well boned by this no matter what.

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Exactly, its a virus and more devious than any virus we have ever seen b/c you can have it with little/no symptoms. Aside from shutting the entire country down for 30 days, I don't think there's a damn thing we can do about it. Its going to run its course and we wont have any real progress until a vaccine is made available. Blaming each other instead of working together for a relief bill and a unifying message for the country is whats wrong with our political system and leadership (on both sides).

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

So the US had its largest number of reported cases ever yesterday, and a large swath of Europe (UK, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands) are somewhere between significantly worse than the US to much, much worse than the US on a per capita basis at this point.

This says two things to me: first, we're likely in for a major increase in this shit in the next few weeks/months. Second, I'm not sure how much "managing" this matters. We absolutely could have done some things different/better. But based on what we're seeing in Europe (who certainly handled it differently than we did), we were going to get pretty well boned by this no matter what.

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I agree. I haven't really studied the difference between countries that that had major outbreaks and countries that haven't to see if there is anything (reasonable) that can be done. There is also the possibility that countries that haven't had an outbreak are just lucky, or haven't had one yet.

Australia and New Zealand are quite possibly just outliers, for example Asia is an interesting case study to me though - people live on top of each other there, but they have not had the magnitude of outbreaks that we have seen in Europe or the US.

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Originally Posted by bleedXblue

Exactly, its a virus and more devious than any virus we have ever seen b/c you can have it with little/no symptoms. Aside from shutting the entire country down for 30 days, I don't think there's a damn thing we can do about it. Its going to run its course and we wont have any real progress until a vaccine is made available. Blaming each other instead of working together for a relief bill and a unifying message for the country is whats wrong with our political system and leadership (on both sides).

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Nope. Wrong. Trump is responsible for all the deaths. Biden said so.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmE9ZpAW...jpg&name=small

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Originally Posted by bigdiggins

Nope. Wrong. Trump is responsible for all the deaths. Biden said so.

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and A LOT of people believed in him